Primary 3 – Term 4 Curriculum Overview

Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful Easter break. Term 3 was a busy time for Primary 3, they all worked really hard and loved sharing their learning with you last month. Below is a curriculum overview for this term.

Literacy

Reading – This term, Primary 3 will revisit prediction extending their knowledge to produce more in-depth predictions. They will be introduced to dictionaries and will use these to find the meaning of context words within their reading books and beyond. In addition to this, pupils will work on identifying the difference between fact and opinion through shared texts, personal readers and linked to IDL. Bug Club readers will continue to be used. Daily opportunities for reading will continue to be provided through personal reading time and where possible visits to the library will take place. Primary 3 will also continue to enjoy a class novel during mindful times.

Writing – This terms writing genres will be response and persuasive. Pupils will learn how to respond and review in relation to various texts and media. In addition to this, they will consider persuasive language when creating persuasive pieces which will include posters and leaflets. Primary 3 will also be encouraged to continue to extend their daily writing through use of connectives, adjectives and openers to make their writing more interesting. In addition to this, weekly handwriting lessons will continue with a focus now on cursive handwriting.

Spelling – New phonemes and common words will be introduced weekly. Active spelling activities will be used to support this learning. In addition, Primary 3 will learn more about suffixes and prefixes, particularly ‘ing’, ‘ed’, ‘s’, and ‘un’.

Listening and Talking – When developing talking and listening skills, P3 will develop their presentation skills through ‘show and tell’ opportunities and they will complete a solo talk on an item of their choice.

Grammar – In grammar, Primary 3 will learn about plurals. They will also use dictionaries to put words in alphabetical order.

Numeracy and Mathematics

This term, Primary 3 will be learning about angles, data handling, fractions and measurement. They will develop their knowledge of these beyond number areas through a hands-on approach which will also include outdoor learning where possible. They will also continue to consolidate their understanding of the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) through daily number talks, morning starters and extension activities.

UNCRC

We will be learning about the articles and rights involved in and associated with Mental Health Awareness Week (Article 24) in May and then look at the rights linked to World Refugee Day (Articles 10 and 22) in June.

Health and Wellbeing

Primary 3 will continue to access our whole school PATHS programme this term to develop their understanding of emotions and relationships. Each child will continue to have the opportunity to be “Pupil of the Day”, receiving compliments from their peers. We will also continue with the Do Be Mindful programme which will allow us to be mindful each day, taking time to find calm and regulate during the busy school day. They will have the opportunity to take part in team building activities, community builder brain breaks and transition support as they prepare to move to the middle school. Furthermore, we will extend their knowledge about healthy living by identifying healthy foods and exploring how to prepare these, with a particular focus on fruits and vegetables.

Physical Education

This term, Primary 3 will develop their expressive dance skills and well as orienteering. They will prepare for sports day participating in various athletics activities which will also include striking and fielding.

PE days continue to be Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon. All children will require a PE kit on these days. Please ensure any jewellery is taken off and left at home on PE days. If your child cannot take part for any reason, please contact the school.

Religious Education

In R.E. this term, Primary 3 will learn about the life of Mary, the mother of God and the events of Pentecost. They will also learn how God created all human beings in his image and likeness and as they develop this understanding they will focus particularly on looking after their bodies and will use anatomically correct language for the human body.

IDL

This term, P3 will learn about materials. They will explore a variety of materials and organise them into categories.  In addition to this, they will predict the outcome of numerous experiments using different materials and document this.

Music

This term Primary 3 will continue to develop their musical performance skills by learning to sing with confidence and play various instruments. Pupils will learn about pulse and rhythmic accuracy as well as pitch control and expression. Primary 3 will have opportunities to share their thoughts and feelings about what they hear, responding to different pieces of music through voice and instruments.

French

In French, Primary 3 will continue to practise basic greetings and numbers to 30. They will also learn French vocabulary for various foods and types of weather. Furthermore, they will compare Scotland and France, focussing on important buildings and landmarks and considering daily life in both countries.

Homework will continue to be distributed on a Monday and should be completed and returned on a Friday each week, please do not worry if all tasks are not completed.

As always, Primary 3 look forward to sharing their fabulous learning with you throughout the term! Check out the Learner Journal app for regular updates from P3 where we will continue to share some of your child’s amazing work.

Thank you for your continued support and understanding, we are really looking forward to another wonderful term in Primary 3,

Mrs Dunsmore and Mrs Hope.

Term 4 Primary Two Curricular Blog Post

We hope you all had an enjoyable Easter break as we now head into our final term! This term pupils will have lots of new learning as well as starting to think about transitioning into P3. We will also be ensuring we have retained all our learning this year. We have lots of fun events planned, including our Sharing the Learning which will take place on Thursday the 14^th of May.

Literacy

This term in literacy all pupils will be looking at new phonics sounds. We will continue to introduce a new sound each week while revising our previous sounds. Pupils worked hard last term on their common words, we will continue revising and practising these. In our writing we started to look at adding connectives to make our sentences longer, we will start to include these in our sentences as we cover personal and persuasive writing this term. These are new genres for us so we will be looking at different examples to help us.

Pupils have been working hard answering comprehension questions in our reading, we will continue to introduce a different book this week. We will focus this term on note-taking and what information we can gain from a text therefore we will look at a lot of non-fiction texts.

Numeracy

We will cover several new concepts this term in numeracy. We will be looking at data handling, symmetry and time. Many of our maths topics will link to our IDL focus and we will take opportunities to take our learning outside when the weather allows us.

Pupils have worked very hard this year learning a variety of new concepts such as multiplication, division and money, so we will continue to revisit and reinforce these skills.

Health and Wellbeing

This term we will look at healthy eating and fuelling our bodies. We will consider how to make healthy choices and understand why it is important to take care of our bodies. We will continue our PATHS inputs to support friendships and emotional wellbeing.

During PE time pupils will have the opportunity to take part in athletics activities as we prepare for sports day.

Religious Education

In addition to attending monthly masses and Holy Days of Obligation, pupils we will continue to partake in RE activities. Throughout May we will be focusing on Mary and the importance of her role within the church.

IDL

We have a very exciting IDL topic of “Minibeasts” this term. Pupils will be involved in “bug hunts” where we will gather and collect data as well as creating symmetrical art work of different minibeasts. Pupils will also have responsibility of their very own caterpillar as we learn about the lifecycle of a butterfly.

UNCRC

We will be learning about the articles and rights involved in and associated with Mental Health Awareness Week (Article 24) in May and then look at the rights linked to World Refugee Day (Articles 10 and 22) in June.

We hope that this will be a fun final term for pupils in Primary 2, with lots to look forward to!

Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan

Our Primary 7 pupils took part in their very first cooking class this morning and the soup they made was absolutely delicious. We can’t wait for the pancakes next week.

Our wonderful football team,  along with coach Ricky and our active schools coach Faye, took part in a match with Dundonald Primary school on Monday night. They played brilliantly and represented our school with pride! (And looked amazing with our new school sports kit too).